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In order to prepare foreign language teachers for successful inclusive teaching, particularly from a subject-specific perspective, there is a need for suitable formats for teacher education to be developed and evaluated. The project ELLeN (English Language Learning & Neurodiversity, http://ellen-project.eu/) applied an inquiry-based learning (IBL) and participatory approach to base pre-service teachers’ learning on first-person narratives of neurodivergent individuals’ and professionals’ experiences in inclusive education. In this interdisciplinary project, pre-service teachers were introduced to the principles of inclusive teaching and neurodiversity through the format of IBL. Supported by multimodal and multi-perspective materials, they prepared tasks on neurodiversity and the implementation of qualitative interviews and their analysis. To investigate the development of their attitudes and perceived competence growth regarding neurodiversity-inclusive English teaching, we employed questionnaires, written reflections and focus group interviews. Results show that a focused IBL approach can help strengthen prospective teachers in seeing inclusive EFL teaching as feasible and enriching.</uh:p>